What is a Web Page ?
A web page is a "screenful"
of information. It can be physically many times the length of a A4 sheet
of paper, or only a few lines.
Different lengths of page
are used for different purposes and in different circumstances. When we
speak of a web page in terms of design, we generally consider it to be
on average, one screen wide and, typically, about half a paper A4 page
or a bit longer.
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Pages can have coloured
backgrounds, or textures, so it is possible to carry themes through a
multi-page site by the use of colour. Care needs to be taken however,
because not all viewers will have the latest high tech equipment capable
of seeing more than 216 colours, and in some circumstances, it will be
necessary to limit the number of colours to avoid confusion for users.
This sort of quality experience and attention to detail is our hallmark.
Pages serve different
purposes. For example, on a small multi-page website, the first page is
likely to be a sort of summary, contents or menu page, from which other
pages may be accessed.
If it is a huge site, there may be cascading
layers of contents pages, or an "image map" of the site on each of the
pages, to make navigation around the site easier. A popular vogue at the
moment is a coloured panel on the left or top of the screen to locate
the sitemap and navigational controls, as on this page.
Some pages will be mostly information, and
therefore biased toward text. Others will be a mixture of text and
photographs or computer graphics, perhaps even animated, and some pages
could be mostly images.
Usually, pages would have "banner" perhaps incorporating the logo of the
organisation at, or toward, the top of the page, and contact details at the
foot.
Page
Furniture
Page
furniture can improve the layout of your web pages.
Decorative
features such as bullet points
or attractive section divider lines
may be used as appropriate
for emphasis, or to make it easy for viewers to find what they want.
Most website pages have interactive links that
allow users to move from page to page (and even from site to site if you
wish) without wasting time having to go through multiple layers of menus
like teletext.
Where required, a response form can be created in
a page. This is useful where you want to collect information from your
visitors in a standard format.
